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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSirDelhi15April1961_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="52" link="Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961" link_text="Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961|Letter to Sir -- Delhi 15 April, 1961]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This perfection of life will help also in building up the next progressive life after death. The human society is meant for liberal cooperation for this movement of all round perfection of the human society without any bar for class or nation or dogmatic faith. Spiritual culture is not dogmatic faith but it is based on philosophy, reason and culture. This can be introduced very easily through convenient methods of music, dance and refreshment which are acceptable by all grades of human being in all parts of the world. It requires only to be organized by combined effort of the intelligent class of men of all nations. I have tried to explain the human cultural synopsis in fifty pictographical explanation and I wish that these pictographical explanations may widely be distributed. The sponsors of the Congress have taken charge of this and I hope they will do the needful.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMathuraPrasadVrindaban23May1964_1" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="61" link="Letter to Mathura Prasad -- Vrindaban 23 May, 1964" link_text="Letter to Mathura Prasad -- Vrindaban 23 May, 1964">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mathura Prasad -- Vrindaban 23 May, 1964|Letter to Mathura Prasad -- Vrindaban 23 May, 1964]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Srimad-Bhagavatam gives all informations to attain the highest perfection of life both during the continuation of the present life as well as in the life after death.</p>
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<div id="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoAatieNavadvipa28October1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="197" link="Letter to Aatie -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967" link_text="Letter to Aatie -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Aatie -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967|Letter to Aatie -- Navadvipa 28 October, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord Narayana in heaven or in the heart of Dhruva understood the sincerity of Dhruva's purpose &amp; sent Narada, His great disciple to initiate Dhruva in the matter of Krishna Consciousness. This incident confirms that by the grace of Krishna, Dhruva was able to get the help of Narada as his spiritual master. Therefore, Krishna Consciousness is a parallel process in worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead &amp; the Spiritual master simultaneously. Your desire to become the servant of the servant of Krishna is very pious. Lord Caitanya desired the same thing in order to set an example, though he was Krishna Himself ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.80|CC Madhya 13.80]]). The Bhagavad-gita confirms this. I am so pleased to learn that you are all living in the Brahmacari house with Jayananda &amp; Upendra &amp; I am more pleased that you are all working. Everyone can achieve the highest perfection of life by working in his specific capacity. Hope you are well.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBrahmanandaSanFrancisco21December1967_1" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="242" link="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 December, 1967" link_text="Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 December, 1967">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 December, 1967|Letter to Brahmananda -- San Francisco 21 December, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Krishna was very kind to me when He sent you to me for cooperating. My hearty thanks for you when you write to say that "Krishna Consciousness is the full perfection of life". Lord Caitanya was eulogized by Rupa Goswami as the latter understood that Lord Caitanya was there to distribute Krishna Consciousness. The only gift for the humanity at large. Lord Caitanya wanted that the message should be distributed in every village and town of the globe. Let us do this service as far as possible in all seriousness. We can not make any compromise with anyone for cheap popularity.</p>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBalaiMontreal4July1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="223" link="Letter to Balai -- Montreal 4 July, 1968" link_text="Letter to Balai -- Montreal 4 July, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Balai -- Montreal 4 July, 1968|Letter to Balai -- Montreal 4 July, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter of June 20, 1968, and I am so glad to learn that you are living happily as householders. I want to see all my disciples to live such peacefully and execute such Krishna Consciousness. That is the perfection of life. It does not matter whether one is Brahmacari or householder, the real test is how he is executing Krishna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoPopePaulVIMontreal3August1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="253" link="Letter to Pope Paul VI -- Montreal 3 August, 1968" link_text="Letter to Pope Paul VI -- Montreal 3 August, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Pope Paul VI -- Montreal 3 August, 1968|Letter to Pope Paul VI -- Montreal 3 August, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The human form of life is specially meant for this purpose, namely, to invoke the dormant Love of God, because better development of consciousness is found in the human body. Animal propensities for sense gratification equally found both in man and animals. But the special significance of human life is to achieve Love of God as the prime perfection of life. Unfortunately, at the present moment people are more concerned about the principle of sense gratification, or the animal part of human life, and they are gradually declining in God consciousness. This tendency is very much deteriorating, and because Your Holiness is the Head of a great religious sect, I think we should meet together and chalk out a program for cooperation.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMalatiLosAngeles23November1968_2" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="442" link="Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 23 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 23 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 23 November, 1968|Letter to Malati -- Los Angeles 23 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your nice letter of Nov. 15, 1968, and I have noted the contents with great satisfaction. Your humble sentiments are very nice exposed herein, and your sincere desire to serve the Lord is the real perfection of life.</p>
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<div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoUddhavaLosAngeles18February1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="132" link="Letter to Uddhava -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Uddhava -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Uddhava -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1969|Letter to Uddhava -- Los Angeles 18 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your wish to be married with a Krsna conscious family, that is nice. You will have your nice, fixed-up wife, and you will be happy working hard for Krsna together. I never discourage marriage, providing it is for Krsna's service and not for simply sex life. It is always meant for a higher purpose. In God's creation there is male and female even in the spiritual world and there is purpose for such creation. This purpose is so that male and female may join together, not for sex-life, but to glorify the Lord. From Srimad-Bhagavatam we learn that in Vaikuntha the women are much more beautiful in their figure, smiling, dressing, etc., but the men and women there are so much attracted by the chanting of Hare Krsna that they do not get any sex impulse even by intimate mingling. Here also we sometimes get very good example, because when our nice boys and girls are dancing together in chanting Hare Krsna at least for that time they forget all about the sex impulse. This is perfection of life, to be so much attracted to Krsna that all insignificant pleasures are utterly forgotten.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJanakiLosAngeles28February1969_1" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="153" link="Letter to Janaki -- Los Angeles 28 February, 1969" link_text="Letter to Janaki -- Los Angeles 28 February, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Janaki -- Los Angeles 28 February, 1969|Letter to Janaki -- Los Angeles 28 February, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your questions, as Brahma realized that he was the maidservant of Krishna, similarly, everyone of us has to realize that Krishna is the only single purusa. purusa synonymously means male, but actually, in the spiritual dictionary, male means "enjoyer" and female means "enjoyed." So in this sense, Krishna is the only male and all others being energies of Krishna, they are prakrti, or female. Please do not try to understand this male and female in the material sense. In other words, our perfection of life will be actually realizing that we are all females. In the material world we have got simply different dresses. Here in the material world, everyone is in the temperament of male, even the so-called females are also in the temperament. This is very prominent in the Western part of the world, and you know it very well how the females here think on the level of equality with males. This aptitude is material.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGaurasundaraTittenhurst6October1969_2" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="603" link="Letter to Gaurasundara -- Tittenhurst 6 October, 1969" link_text="Letter to Gaurasundara -- Tittenhurst 6 October, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gaurasundara -- Tittenhurst 6 October, 1969|Letter to Gaurasundara -- Tittenhurst 6 October, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Here in England everything is going on nicely, and this evening we shall appear in big hall in London for kirtana and lecture. There is great interest in Krishna Consciousness amongst the English people and wherever we have spoken here there has been very nice reception. So by Krishna's Grace many of the boys and girls of the Western countries are advanced enough spiritually to take advantage of this Benediction of Caitanya Mahaprabhu of making perfection of life by the Hare Krishna Mantra.</p>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoProfessorJFStaalLosAngeles30January1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="65" link="Letter to Professor J. F. Staal -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1970" link_text="Letter to Professor J. F. Staal -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Professor J. F. Staal -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1970|Letter to Professor J. F. Staal -- Los Angeles 30 January, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The process of chanting is, therefore, not only the sublime method for practical perfection of life, but it is the authorized Vedic principle and inaugurated by the greatest Vedic scholar and devotee (Whom we consider as an incarnation of Krishna), Lord Caitanya, and we are simply following His authorized footsteps.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLosAngeles1May1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="283" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 1 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your question about annamoya, pranamoya, etc. Yes, they are different stages of consciousness. Different living beings are situated in different consciousness, Some are satisfied in the matter of eating and sleeping, they are on the annamoya stage. Pranamoya means those who can simply survive in the struggle for existence. Manomoya means philosophical speculation. Jnanamoya means self-realization, vijnanamoya means application of that stage in practical life, and when there is the right perfection of life that is anandamoya stage or Krsna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSriGovindaBobLindbergLosAngeles23May1970_2" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="321" link="Letter to Sri Govinda (Bob Lindberg) -- Los Angeles 23 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Sri Govinda (Bob Lindberg) -- Los Angeles 23 May, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri Govinda (Bob Lindberg) -- Los Angeles 23 May, 1970|Letter to Sri Govinda (Bob Lindberg) -- Los Angeles 23 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore do not waste even a moment of this rare opportunity of human form of life. Chant Hare Krsna, be always finding out some engagement in the service of the Lord, and be happy, and by the grace of Krsna you will be freed from all contaminations of this material condition and become fit for realizing the highest perfection of life, Krsna Consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaLosAngeles21June1970_3" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="369" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 21 June, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A Spiritual Master is always liberated. In any condition of His life He should not be mistaken as ordinary human being. This position of a Spiritual Master is achieved by three processes. One is called sadhana siddha. That means one who is liberated by executing the regulative principle of devotional service. Another is krpa siddha, one who is liberated by the mercy of Krsna or His devotee. And another is nitya siddha who is never forgetful of Krsna throughout his whole life. These are the three features of the perfection of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDennisKehrLosAngeles17July1970_4" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="431" link="Letter to Dennis Kehr -- Los Angeles 17 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Dennis Kehr -- Los Angeles 17 July, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dennis Kehr -- Los Angeles 17 July, 1970|Letter to Dennis Kehr -- Los Angeles 17 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I think you are very sincere boy, so please follow the regulative principles strictly and chant your rounds of Hare Krsna faithfully. Attend the arati ceremony and take prasada and work hard in the service of Krsna and you will surely experience the bliss of the perfection of life in Krsna consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBalaiTokyo17August1970_5" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="485" link="Letter to Balai -- Tokyo 17 August, 1970" link_text="Letter to Balai -- Tokyo 17 August, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Balai -- Tokyo 17 August, 1970|Letter to Balai -- Tokyo 17 August, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is very encouraging to me to know that both yourself and your good husband are combined so nicely for setting the example of Krishna conscious family life. And now you have such a good daughter who is naturally devotee of Krsna, so if you kindly continue to advance on these lines as I have already chalked out for you your perfection of life in Krsna's service is guaranteed.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJananivasaCalcutta29September1970_6" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="535" link="Letter to Jananivasa -- Calcutta 29 September, 1970" link_text="Letter to Jananivasa -- Calcutta 29 September, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jananivasa -- Calcutta 29 September, 1970|Letter to Jananivasa -- Calcutta 29 September, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very glad to know that you are going on with your work undaunted in spite of police harassment. Now you are seven devotees there, so please see that everything is done regularly and strictly to the standard devotional practice. All our literatures are for guiding you in your successful prosecution of Krsna Consciousness, so follow these instructions of mine implicitly and your perfection of life in Krsna's service is guaranteed and you will have the spiritual strength for attracting and training others in this bhakti cult.</p>
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<div id="LettertoStanBombay17November1970_7" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="604" link="Letter to Stan -- Bombay 17 November, 1970" link_text="Letter to Stan -- Bombay 17 November, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Stan -- Bombay 17 November, 1970|Letter to Stan -- Bombay 17 November, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The first step, so you have noted is that the dirty things which are clouding our spiritual senses must be cleansed by the Sankirtana process. So Krsna Consciousness is a purifying process. If you follow the regulations of our Society very strictly you will quickly become completely purified and thus achieve the highest perfection of life, Krsna consciousness or Love of God.</p>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoNityanandaDelhi12November1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="515" link="Letter to Nityananda -- Delhi 12 November, 1971" link_text="Letter to Nityananda -- Delhi 12 November, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Nityananda -- Delhi 12 November, 1971|Letter to Nityananda -- Delhi 12 November, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is a basic principle that one must accept a bona fide spiritual master in order to achieve the highest perfection of life, love of God. I thank all of you very much for accepting me as your spiritual master, and I promise that I will take you back to home, back to Godhead. I ask you all to promise me to always chant at least 16 rounds, follow the regulative principles, read our books and try to preach this Krishna Consciousness Movement all over the world. So far my qualifications are concerned, I am simply trying to carry out the order of my Guru Maharaja.</p>
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<div id="1972_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Correspondence" text="1972 Correspondence"><h3>1972 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoRanadhiraBombay17January1972_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="48" link="Letter to Ranadhira -- Bombay 17 January, 1972" link_text="Letter to Ranadhira -- Bombay 17 January, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ranadhira -- Bombay 17 January, 1972|Letter to Ranadhira -- Bombay 17 January, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 12-22-71, and I am very much pleased that you are making such nice advancement in Krishna Consciousness and that you are always thinking in so many ways how to best serve the Lord. By fixing your attention in this way, worrying how He will be pleased with me, you will naturally very soon reach the supreme highest perfection of life which is pure Krishna Consciousness. You should be very serious for trying for it, as I think that you are one of my senior disciples and I am very much relying on you now to carry on this mission with full responsibility. We must become so responsible for seriously practicing this art of of Krishna Consciousness, because this world is so full of degrading elements of life for dragging everyone down and down, and if just a few men can perfect the art, they can save the rest of all the people from the greatest dangers. So I count you and your godbrothers among those few men who are treading seriously on the path back to Home, back to Godhead, and now we must maintain such exalted position and not fall back by neglecting our highest standards of devotional practices.</p>
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<div id="LettertoLocanaNalinikantaCalcutta18February1972_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="99" link="Letter to Locana, Nalinikanta -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Locana, Nalinikanta -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Locana, Nalinikanta -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972|Letter to Locana, Nalinikanta -- Calcutta 18 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I like very much your idea for putting eight banners across the main road with the eight Sikshastak prayers written boldly. If the students and other people study these eight prayers carefully, they will be delivered to the highest perfection of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRudraRadhikaCalcutta20February1972_2" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="105" link="Letter to Rudra, Radhika -- Calcutta 20 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Rudra, Radhika -- Calcutta 20 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rudra, Radhika -- Calcutta 20 February, 1972|Letter to Rudra, Radhika -- Calcutta 20 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You have described how you once fell down because you saw discrepancies in our philosophy. Actually, our philosophy is perfect, but because there were discrepancies in your mind at that time you may have thought something wrongly about our philosophy—that is one of Maya's favorite tricks for convincing us to stop our Spiritual life and enjoy her. So if ever you have questions or serious doubts about philosophy you may ask the GBC or myself. And so far your telling me that some other devotees discouraged you in the past, I also had trouble with some of my Godbrothers, but I never let it affect my service, because when one becomes fixed-up in devotional service he never allows anyone else or any condition at all to hamper his service to Krishna or discourage him in any way. So you must become convinced like this too, by preaching constantly and having Sankirtana, and you will very quickly attain the supreme perfection of life. As for your question about celibacy, if you want to remain celibate for life, I have no objection.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBhaktadasaCalcutta21February1972_3" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="108" link="Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 21 February, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 21 February, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 21 February, 1972|Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 21 February, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Because you are making so many new devotees and distributing so many books and magazines, therefore I can understand that your routine work is being kept to the highest standard and that preaching work is going on well. This I can very much appreciate. Now never let it slacken or neglect our regular program, and always you will be successful in spreading this sublime movement of Lord Caitanya's, and very soon you will yourself approach the supreme perfection of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoDasarhaBombay4March1972_4" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="129" link="Letter to Dasarha -- Bombay 4 March, 1972" link_text="Letter to Dasarha -- Bombay 4 March, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dasarha -- Bombay 4 March, 1972|Letter to Dasarha -- Bombay 4 March, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings.  I have received your letter dated February 4, 1972, and I have noted the contents carefully.  I am very glad to see that everything is going very nicely there in Wilmington as per the enclosed newspaper clippings, and I am much pleased that you are wholeheartedly engaging yourself in this way, and in this way you will help to save the whole world from the most dangerous position and at the same time achieve yourself the topmost perfection of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoJayapatakaHonolulu17May1972_5" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="261" link="Letter to Jayapataka -- Honolulu 17 May, 1972" link_text="Letter to Jayapataka -- Honolulu 17 May, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Jayapataka -- Honolulu 17 May, 1972|Letter to Jayapataka -- Honolulu 17 May, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This meeting in Navadvipa was certainly very important and I am very much pleased that Sriman Acyutananda Maharaja has established our position. Krishna will bless him. Let him preach in that spirit, that is required. Our mission is to establish God-consciousness. We can give more information about God from authentic literature. So every religion has got some relationship with God, that is preliminary understanding. But actually what is God, how we can understand Him, how He is working by His different energies, how He is creating, maintaining and annihilating—all this information we can give in details, therefore anyone who is interested in the matter of understanding God, they should give their patient hearing to our descriptions. The result will be that his faith in God will be increased. In other words, if any person who hears from us will become a greater lover of God and learn what is the highest perfection of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoBobLosAngeles16June1972_6" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="327" link="Letter to Bob -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972" link_text="Letter to Bob -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bob -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972|Letter to Bob -- Los Angeles 16 June, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I thank you very much for your letter dated June 12, 1972, and I have noted the sentiments expressed therein with great pleasure. I am very much glad to hear that you are associating with us, and I know that you are a very good boy, very intelligent and your behavior is gentle, so I have all confidence that very quickly Krishna will bestow all His blessings upon you and you will feel yourself becoming perfectly happy in Krishna Consciousness. One makes his advancement in Krishna Consciousness by giving up voluntarily his attachment to material nature or maya and such renunciation is called tapasya. But we are not very willing to perform austerities without good reason, therefore any man with scientific and philosophical good brain such as your good self, must appreciate first what is the transcendental knowledge. If you get knowledge, automatically tapasya will follow, and then you make your advancement in spiritual life. So to get knowledge is the first item for anyone who is hoping to find his perfection of life. Therefore, I advise you to daily read our books as far as possible and try to understand the subject matter from different angles of vision by discussing frequently with the devotees at New York Temple. In this way you will become gradually convinced, and by your sincere attitude and devotional service you will make progress.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSukadevaLosAngeles16August1972_7" class="quote" parent="1972_Correspondence" book="Let" index="444" link="Letter to Sukadeva -- Los Angeles 16 August, 1972" link_text="Letter to Sukadeva -- Los Angeles 16 August, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sukadeva -- Los Angeles 16 August, 1972|Letter to Sukadeva -- Los Angeles 16 August, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yes, the program of increasing book distribution is very much appreciated by me, and especially if you can preach very widely to the university students nearby to your place, that is the best program.  Try to get a course of instruction in the college and preach daily in a scholastic way.  If we can attract this student class of men by our preaching work, that will enhance everything and we are very much in need of intelligent preachers for expanding this movement all over the world.  I want that you all my advanced disciples become very bold preachers and take up this task of saving the fallen humanity from its worst condition of sinfulness.  If you simply convert the leaders of your country to our philosophy, then the whole world will follow and be saved from ruin.  Otherwise, they are all doomed to become animals like hogs and dogs.  So you preach like that, very strongly, to especially the hippie class of men and the student class of men and convince them to give up their sinful activities and find out their real perfection of life in this Krishna Consciousness movement.</p>
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<div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoBhaktadasaCalcutta26January1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="34" link="Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 26 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 26 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 26 January, 1973|Letter to Bhakta dasa -- Calcutta 26 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is very pleasing to me that you have distributed so many of my books and preached to the students. This is our mission of life, to somehow turn the minds of the conditioned souls to Krsna consciousness and thus give them the highest perfection of life. So you are a very sincere soul and Krsna will give you intelligence how to do this more and more.</p>
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<div id="LettertoKsirodakasayiCalcutta29January1973_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="51" link="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Calcutta 29 January, 1973" link_text="Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Calcutta 29 January, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Calcutta 29 January, 1973|Letter to Ksirodakasayi -- Calcutta 29 January, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that anyone who surrenders unto Me, whether a woman, sudra, vaisya, etc., they all attain the highest perfection of bhakti-yoga, not that now I am grhastha, I am doing karma-yoga, or now I am vanaprastha, I am doing sankhya-yoga, this is all nonsense. So if you read my books, this is explained in so many places that by taking to the path of pure bhakti all the other yogas are achieved automatically, because bhakti is the culmination of yoga and the highest perfection of life. Yet at the same time it is very simple and sublime. So I do not see what is the difficulty. So as I am your spiritual master, it is my obligation to answer any questions that you may have. So please send the tape and I shall reply.</p>
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<div id="LettertoNiranjanaBrooklyn21May1973_2" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="197" link="Letter to Niranjana -- Brooklyn 21 May, 1973" link_text="Letter to Niranjana -- Brooklyn 21 May, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Niranjana -- Brooklyn 21 May, 1973|Letter to Niranjana -- Brooklyn 21 May, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The aim of our education should be, whatever education we might have got, we must satisfy the Lord by such education. That is the perfection of life. I have therefore asked our chemist friend, Dr. Swaroop Damodara das Brahmacari to refute the theory that life comes out of matter. This is not the fact, rather, matter comes out of life. We have discussed this point very broadly and Swaroop Damodara is convinced that everything comes from life, Krsna—aham sarvasya prabhavo/ mattah sarvam pravartate.  ([[Vanisource:BG 10.8 (1972)|BG 10.8]]). So, I've asked Swaroop Damodara to invite Ramananda Rao to come and join him to present this revolutionary theory to the learned advanced scientists.</p>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMrQuinnBombay17December1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="689" link="Letter to Mr. Quinn -- Bombay 17 December, 1974" link_text="Letter to Mr. Quinn -- Bombay 17 December, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Quinn -- Bombay 17 December, 1974|Letter to Mr. Quinn -- Bombay 17 December, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Nov. 1, 1974, and have noted the contents. Thank you for your kind sentiments. You are a very fortunate person that you have come into contact with our Krsna Consciousness movement. The perfection of human life is to somehow or another advance in spiritual life and achieve love of Godhead and go back to Godhead, back to home. The animals and lower forms they can not achieve this perfection of life. So in this human form of life we have to consider ourselves very fortunate and take advantage in this human form. Because in the next life we don't know what kind of body we may have; maybe dog, maybe pig, maybe tree, maybe fish. So we must take advantage of this human form of life. My recommendation to you is that you somehow or another put yourself in a situation so that you may have as much association with our devotees as possible. Either remain in the temple or visit the temple frequently with your family. If you continue to read our books very carefully and try to understand our philosophy very deeply, this is nice. Also it is a must that you chant Hare Krsna at least 16 times daily on your beads and follow all of the regulative principles that we have given. If there are any questions on these points you can discuss with Jagadisa Prabhu in Toronto or any of the devotees in Toronto.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSvarupaDamodaraVrindaban31August1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="486" link="Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Vrindaban 31 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Vrindaban 31 August, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Vrindaban 31 August, 1975|Letter to Svarupa Damodara -- Vrindaban 31 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So by study of Srimad-Bhagavatam under the bona fide spiritual master, one becomes aware of the full value of life, and then he revives his original Krishna consciousness. That is the perfection of life. The individual soul is already under specific material nature, and the process is going on in lower grades of life, but in the human form of life by advancement of education, one can become above the modes of material nature. That chance is given to him. This is stated in the Bhagavad-gita: "yanti deva vrata devan ([[Vanisource:BG 9.25 (1972)|BG 9.25]])." So if he likes he can go back to Godhead, "yanti mad yajino 'pi mam," and stop this transmigration process. Then he comes again perfect in Krishna consciousness. We are trying to bring the human society to this stage of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoGirirajaVrindaban15September1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="538" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Vrindaban 15 September, 1975" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Vrindaban 15 September, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Vrindaban 15 September, 1975|Letter to Giriraja -- Vrindaban 15 September, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated September 6th, 1975 and have noted the contents. Regarding the tax question, our Krishna consciousness movement is cultural. We are preaching Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Our mission is to spread the instructions of Krishna so that people may become happy, hopeful, and peaceful. The central point is to understand Krishna as the supreme proprietor, the supreme enjoyer and the best friend of all living beings. He is the best friend of the human society because He gives perfect social order, perfect economic development, perfect philosophy, perfect religion, and perfection of life.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMarkPhillipsVrindaban4December1975_2" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="728" link="Letter to Mark Phillips -- Vrindaban 4 December, 1975" link_text="Letter to Mark Phillips -- Vrindaban 4 December, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mark Phillips -- Vrindaban 4 December, 1975|Letter to Mark Phillips -- Vrindaban 4 December, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In Australia we have got our temples, consult the Back to Godhead magazine for the temple nearest you. Please visit the temple and take advantage of the pure spiritual atmosphere, this will immediately extinguish the burning fire of material suffering in your heart. Meanwhile I humbly request you to chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. This chanting will bring you all perfection of life, please try it.</p>
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<div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoDrChittaranjanMohapatraMayapur21March1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="197" link="Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976" link_text="Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976|Letter to Dr. Chittaranjan Mohapatra -- Mayapur 21 March, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Concerning your question as to why we should sacrifice everything to Him; because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is the Proprietor and Enjoyer of everything; Bhoktaram yajna tapasam sarva loka mahesvaram . . .  ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29 (1972)|BG 5.29]]). Everything belongs to Him. We have unlawfully encroached upon His property this is mine, that is mine . . . Krishna comes down to teach us real knowledge, therefore He tells you to give up encroaching on His property. Better to deliver it to Him. Therefore, perfection of life is when we deliver or return everything to Him, and He tells us this for our benefit! The sooner we return everything to Him, the better it is for us. Our Krishna Consciousness Movement is teaching this fact all over the world.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMrDhawanVrindaban2April1976_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="214" link="Letter to Mr. Dhawan -- Vrindaban 2 April, 1976" link_text="Letter to Mr. Dhawan -- Vrindaban 2 April, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Dhawan -- Vrindaban 2 April, 1976|Letter to Mr. Dhawan -- Vrindaban 2 April, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Any religious system which doesn't teach this, how to love God is not religion, but is cheating system. The conditioned souls who have come to this world on account of forgetfulness of his eternal relationship with God is prone to be cheated, but a person who is sincere is not cheated, but he takes up the path which leads one to the perfection of life, how to love God. The present religious and spiritual systems in varieties come into existence on account of imperfect leaders who defied the authority of God. My suggestion is therefore that the leaders who actually agree as eternal servant of God may sit together and find out the ways and means of one religious system in this world. God is one. There cannot be many gods, otherwise there is no meaning of God. In the English dictionary, you find that God means the "Supreme Being." There are unlimited number of living beings, but God is one Supreme Being. Supreme Being must be one. Nobody can be equal to Him, and nobody can be greater than Him, otherwise there is no meaning of God.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRuciraParis31July1976_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="433" link="Letter to Rucira -- Paris 31 July, 1976" link_text="Letter to Rucira -- Paris 31 July, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rucira -- Paris 31 July, 1976|Letter to Rucira -- Paris 31 July, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This process of offering whatever one has in one's possession for the pleasure of the spiritual master or Krsna is recommended in the Bhagavad gita by the Lord Himself when he says, "yat karosi yad asnasi yat karosi dadasi yat... ([[Vanisource:BG 9.27 (1972)|BG 9.27]])." and "tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya. . . ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]])". This process of offering everything in one's possession or ability is the recommended means for losing all attachment to material things and all attachment to material sense gratification. When one has become purified by this process of offering everything back to the Supreme he becomes simply attached to pleasing the Supreme Lord. This is the perfection of life. It is attained simply by following the four regulative principles, chanting sixteen rounds daily, and regularly offering one's time and effort in the propagation of this Krsna Consciousness Movement.</p>
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